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From: espen@well.UUCP (Peter Espen)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Posting software from Compuserve
Message-ID: <1910@well.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 10-Oct-86 12:14:04 EDT
Article-I.D.: well.1910
Posted: Fri Oct 10 12:14:04 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Oct-86 20:44:50 EDT
References: <812@gould9.UUCP>
Organization: Whole Earth Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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Summary: Don't believe everything you read!!

In article <812@gould9.UUCP>, joel@gould9.UUCP (Joel West) writes:
> According to October 6, 1986 InfoWorld:
> 	   Compuserve Information Service has threatened a bulletin
> 	board operator with legal action for offering on his board
> 	public domain programs he obtained on-line from Compuserve.
> 	   Compuserve, a common source for public domain programs,
> 	said it considered the entire contents of its service to be
> 	copyrighted, a pokciy that caused user outcry when it was
> 	first adopted last year....
> 	   [The BBS operator] received a registered letter from
> 	Compuserve's attorneys stating that he was infringing on
> 	Compuserve's copyright.  The letter threatened him with
> 	civil and criminal action...
> 
> This is a good example of why I subscribe to USENET and not to
> Compuserve.

	Don't believe everything you read. The report in Infoworld
is inaccurate and incomplete. I am not saying that Compuserve is all
that great, but the facts in this matter were distorted as they went
through the grapevine, and I think Compuserve got a bit of a bum rap.

	(espen@well)
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